To Compare
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means compare so the verb vocab version is to compare.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: Look at this cooler (くら). Now look at this other cooler. We need to compare the two coolers. Think about all the features each one has and really compare, like you have a list or something.
どうしてユーザー数を比べるんですか？
Why are we comparing the number of users?
このお茶とそのお茶を飲み比べてみてください。
Try comparing this tea with that one.
出来るだけ自分を他人と比べないようにしましょう。
As much as possible, try not to compare yourself with others.
それに比べれば、ボクのケースなんてまだマシだよ。
Compared to that, my case is still not that bad.